Award winning journalist Cokie Roberts will give a talk on campus titled 'The 2012 Election & What it Bodes for the Next Four Years.' 

Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and a senior news analyst for NPR. From 1996 to 2002, she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program, This Week. In her more than 40 years in broadcasting, she has won numerous awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting. She is the bestselling author of “We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters,” “Ladies of Liberty,” and “Founding Mothers.”

The event, sponsored by the political science department, is open to all members of the Holy Cross community.